Eating out::
There are several restaurants in Glengarriff, they serve a wonderful selection of food from fine dinning in the Martello Room to casual food in the Hawthorn. All serve a superb selection of fresh fish cooked in various different styles. The Park Bistro is to be recommended.
The world famous Kenmare is a gastronomic delight and is teeming with superb restaurants including the The Park Hotel, The Sheen Falls, The Lyme Tree and Darcy's Oyster Bar to name but a few.
Bantry is also full of wonderful restaurant's such as the Fish Kitchen, O'Connors and the Sea Cloud.
Night Life::
Although a small village, we have eight pubs all of which have complimentary traditional entertainment at night. Crack agus Ceoil guaranteed.
Activities:
There are a huge amount of activities to be enjoyed in the surrounding area including Kayaking, sailing, fishing (sea, shore and fresh water), Golf, Walking and Cycling to name but a few. There are three seperate nature reserves within 1 km of Glengarriff village, one of which has five spectacular walks to suit all abilities.
Golf:
We have two golf couse's in the immediate area, Bantry Bay Golf Club which is open to visitors and is a Cristy O'Conner Jr. designed park land course with 14 of the 18 hole's having spectacular view's over Bantry Bay. The second course is Glengarriff which is a 9 hole park land course with spectacular view's over Glengarriff Harbour. The club president is the film star Maureen O'Hara who can often been seen in the club house or down in the village of Glengarriff.
There are a further 3 course's with in about 20 km of Glengarriff.